Global Campus
Latin America & Caribbean

LATMA has a faculty composed of professors from Latin America, thanks to the REDALDH network (made up of LATMA member universities), academics from other Global Campus’s regional Master’s programmes, as well as representatives from international intergovernmental, non-governmental, and governmental organisations. The curriculum content of LATMA is organised into six interrelated areas.

• FOUNDATIONS AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HUMAN RIGHTS

Modular units: non-state actors, international agendas, data protection and human rights, and the environment.

• INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS**

Modular units: regional protection of human rights, international criminal justice, social and collective rights, human mobility (asylum, refuge, migration, and displacement); constitutional protection of rights in Latin America; reparation of systematic rights violations.

• RECOGNITION AND ACCESS TO HUMAN RIGHTS (focussing on the topics of intersectionality and regional perspectives on inclusion)

Modular units: human rights of children and adolescents, gender and diversity, LGBTIQ+ population, Afro-descendants, indigenous peoples, and human rights and disability.

• STATE, POLITICS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS including democracy, political systems, and public policies

Modular units: politics, public management and human rights, finances and human rights, social movements, international cooperation project design, and democracy and transition.

• DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Modular units: public policy, strategic litigation, and cases of activism.

• METHODOLOGY

Modular units: final project (thesis), project seminars, and individual tutoring.

• Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina)
• Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina)
• Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Argentina)
• Universidad Nacional de Lanús (Argentina)
• Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina)
• Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina)
• Universidad Nacional de Villa María (Argentina)
• Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia)
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
• Universidad Nacional de Chile (Chile)
• Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) (Dominican Republic)
• Universidad de San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)
• Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala)
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Mexico)
• Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)
• Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

• University Degree: A degree of at least four (4) years in a field related to the Master’s programme (e.g., Law, Political Science, Sociology, History, Economics, Arts, Social Communication, Engineering, Medicine, among others).
• Prior experience in the field of human rights within governmental, intergovernmental, civil society, private sector, or academic settings.
• Two letters of recommendation.
• Proficiency in English is an advantage

Applicants are selected also based on gender and geographical diversity, with a particular emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Maximum number of accepted students: xx

● Tuition-free studies

● Financial aid scholarship, i.e. a monthly stipend to assist with living expenses during the on-campus period in Buenos Aires. The stipend should not be considered sufficient to cover all expenses related to the stay in Buenos Aires.